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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1725/2003 of 29 September 2003 adopting certain international accounting standards in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)
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Article 1.The international accounting standards set out in the Annex are...
Article 2.This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 1 Presentation of Financial Statements
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 2 Inventories
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 7 (REVISED 1992)
REPORTING CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES
ACQUISITIONS AND DISPOSALS OF SUBSIDIARIES AND OTHER BUSINESS UNITS
48. An enterprise should disclose, together with a commentary by management,...
49. There are various circumstances in which cash and cash equivalent...
50. Additional information may be relevant to users in understanding the...
51. The separate disclosure of cash flows that represent increases in...
52. The disclosure of segmental cash flows enables users to obtain...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 10 Events after the Balance Sheet Date
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 11 (REVISED 1993)
17. Costs that relate directly to a specific contract include:
18. Costs that may be attributable to contract activity in general...
19. Costs that are specifically chargeable to the customer under the...
20. Costs that cannot be attributed to contract activity or cannot...
21. Contract costs include the costs attributable to a contract for...
RECOGNITION OF CONTRACT REVENUE AND EXPENSES
22. When the outcome of a construction contract can be estimated...
25. The recognition of revenue and expenses by reference to the...
26. Under the percentage of completion method, contract revenue is recognised...
27. A contractor may have incurred contract costs that relate to...
28. The outcome of a construction contract can only be estimated...
29. An enterprise is generally able to make reliable estimates after...
30. The stage of completion of a contract may be determined...
31. When the stage of completion is determined by reference to...
32. When the outcome of a construction contract cannot be estimated...
34. Contract costs that are not probable of being recovered are...
35. When the uncertainties that prevented the outcome of the contract...
40. An enterprise should disclose each of the following for contracts...
41. Retentions are amounts of progress billings which are not paid...
43. The gross amount due from customers for contract work is...
44. The gross amount due to customers for contract work is...
45. An enterprise discloses any contingent liabilities and contingent assets in...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 12 (REVISED 2000)
1. The original IAS 12 required an enterprise to account for...
2. The original IAS 12 permitted an enterprise not to recognise deferred...
5. The original IAS 12 required that taxes payable on undistributed profits...
7. The original IAS 12 permitted, but did not require, an enterprise...
8. The tax consequences of recovering the carrying amount of certain...
9. The original IAS 12 did not state explicitly whether deferred tax...
10. The original IAS 12 did not specify whether an enterprise should...
11. The original IAS 12 stated that debit and credit balances...
12. The original IAS 12 required disclosure of an explanation of...
5. The following terms are used in this Standard with the...
6. Tax expense (tax income) comprises current tax expense (current tax...
8. The tax base of a liability is its carrying amount,...
1. Current liabilities include accrued expenses with a carrying amount of 100....
2. Current liabilities include interest revenue received in advance, with a...
3. Current liabilities include accrued expenses with a carrying amount of 100....
4. Current liabilities include accrued fines and penalties with a carrying...
11. In consolidated financial statements, temporary differences are determined by comparing...
RECOGNITION OF CURRENT TAX LIABILITIES AND CURRENT TAX ASSETS
RECOGNITION OF DEFERRED TAX LIABILITIES AND DEFERRED TAX ASSETS
Deductible temporary differences
24. A deferred tax asset should be recognised for all deductible...
25. It is inherent in the recognition of a liability that...
26. The following are examples of deductible temporary differences which result...
27. The reversal of deductible temporary differences results in deductions in...
28. It is probable that taxable profit will be available against...
29. When there are insufficient taxable temporary differences relating to the...
30. Tax planning opportunities are actions that the enterprise would take...
31. When an enterprise has a history of recent losses, the...
Investments in subsidiaries, branches and associates and interests in joint...
38. Temporary differences arise when the carrying amount of investments in...
39. An enterprise should recognise a deferred tax liability for all...
40. As a parent controls the dividend policy of its subsidiary,...
41. An enterprise accounts in its own currency for the non-monetary...
42. An investor in an associate does not control that enterprise...
43. The arrangement between the parties to a joint venture usually...
44. An enterprise should recognise a deferred tax asset for all...
45. In deciding whether a deferred tax asset is recognised for...
46. Current tax liabilities (assets) for the current and prior periods...
47. Deferred tax assets and liabilities should be measured at the...
48. Current and deferred tax assets and liabilities are usually measured...
49. When different tax rates apply to different levels of taxable...
51. The measurement of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets...
52. In some jurisdictions, the manner in which an enterprise recovers...
52A. In some jurisdictions, income taxes are payable at a higher...
52B. In the circumstances described in paragraph 52A, the income tax consequences...
53. Deferred tax assets and liabilities should not be discounted.
54. The reliable determination of deferred tax assets and liabilities on...
55. Temporary differences are determined by reference to the carrying amount...
56. The carrying amount of a deferred tax asset should be...
RECOGNITION OF CURRENT AND DEFERRED TAX
57. Accounting for the current and deferred tax effects of a...
Items credited or charged directly to equity
61. Current tax and deferred tax should be charged or credited...
62. International Accounting Standards require or permit certain items to be...
63. In exceptional circumstances it may be difficult to determine the...
64. IAS 16, property, plant and equipment, does not specify whether...
65A. When an enterprise pays dividends to its shareholders, it may...
Tax assets and tax liabilities
69. Tax assets and tax liabilities should be presented separately from...
70. When an enterprise makes a distinction between current and non-current...
71. An enterprise should offset current tax assets and current tax...
72. Although current tax assets and liabilities are separately recognised and...
73. In consolidated financial statements, a current tax asset of one...
74. An enterprise should offset deferred tax assets and deferred tax...
75. To avoid the need for detailed scheduling of the timing...
76. In rare circumstances, an enterprise may have a legally enforceable...
79. The major components of tax expense (income) should be disclosed...
82. An enterprise should disclose the amount of a deferred tax...
82A. In the circumstances described in paragraph 52A, an enterprise should disclose...
83. An enterprise discloses the nature and amount of each extraordinary...
84. The disclosures required by paragraph 81(c) enable users of financial statements...
85. In explaining the relationship between tax expense (income) and accounting...
86. The average effective tax rate is the tax expense (income)...
87. It would often be impracticable to compute the amount of...
87A. Paragraph 82A requires an enterprise to disclose the nature of...
87B. It would sometimes not be practicable to compute the total...
87C. An enterprise required to provide the disclosures in paragraph 82A may...
88. An enterprise discloses any tax-related contingent liabilities and contingent assets...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 14 (REVISED 1997)
1. The original IAS 14 applied to enterprises whose securities are...
2. The original IAS 14 required that information be reported for...
3. The original IAS 14 required that the same quantity of information...
4. The original IAS 14 was silent on whether segment information must...
5. The original IAS 14 had allowed differences in the definition of...
6. IAS 14 (revised) requires ‘symmetry’ in the inclusion of items...
7. The original IAS 14 was silent on whether segments deemed...
8. The original IAS 14 was silent on whether geographical segments should...
9. The original IAS 14 required four principal items of information...
10. The original IAS 14 was silent on whether prior period segment...
11. IAS 14 (revised) requires that if total revenue from external...
12. The original IAS 14 allowed a different method of pricing...
13. IAS 14 (revised) requires disclosure of revenue for any segment...
1. This Standard should be applied in complete sets of published...
2. A complete set of financial statements includes a balance sheet,...
3. This Standard should be applied by enterprises whose equity or...
4. If an enterprise whose securities are not publicly traded prepares...
5. If an enterprise whose securities are not publicly traded chooses...
6. If a single financial report contains both consolidated financial statements...
7. Similarly, if a single financial report contains both the financial...
Definitions of business segment and geographical segment
9. The terms business segment and geographical segment are used in...
10. The factors in paragraph 9 for identifying business segments and geographical...
11. A single business segment does not include products and services...
12. Similarly, a geographical segment does not include operations in economic...
13. The predominant sources of risks affect how most enterprises are...
14. An enterprise's organisational and internal reporting structure will normally provide...
15. Determining the composition of a business or geographical segment involves...
Definitions of segment revenue, expense, result, assets, and liabilities
16. The following additional terms are used in this Standard with...
17. The definitions of segment revenue, segment expense, segment assets, and...
18. In some cases, however, a revenue, expense, asset, or liability...
19. Examples of segment assets include current assets that are used...
20. Examples of segment liabilities include trade and other payables, accrued...
21. Measurements of segment assets and liabilities include adjustments to the...
22. Some guidance for cost allocation can be found in other...
23. IAS 7, cash flow statements, provides guidance as to whether...
24. Segment revenue, segment expense, segment assets, and segment liabilities are...
25. While the accounting policies used in preparing and presenting the...
IDENTIFYING REPORTABLE SEGMENTS
Primary and secondary segment reporting formats
26. The dominant source and nature of an enterprise's risks and...
27. An enterprise's internal organisational and management structure and its system...
28. For most enterprises, the predominant source of risks and returns...
29. A ‘matrix presentation’ — both business segments and geographical segments...
30. In some cases, an enterprise's organisation and internal reporting may...
34. Two or more internally reported business segments or geographical segments...
35. A business segment or geographical segment should be identified as...
36. If an internally reported segment is below all of the...
37. If total external revenue attributable to reportable segments constitutes less...
38. The 10 % thresholds in this Standard are not intended to...
39. By limiting reportable segments to those that earn a majority...
40. This Standard encourages, but does not require, the voluntary reporting...
41. If an enterprise's internal reporting system treats vertically integrated activities...
42. A segment identified as a reportable segment in the immediately...
43. If a segment is identified as a reportable segment in...
49. Paragraphs 50 to 67 specify the disclosures required for reportable...
50. The disclosure requirements in paragraphs 51 to 67 should be applied...
51. An enterprise should disclose segment revenue for each reportable segment....
52. An enterprise should disclose segment result for each reportable segment....
53. If an enterprise can compute segment net profit or loss...
54. An example of a measure of segment performance above segment...
55. An enterprise should disclose the total carrying amount of segment...
56. An enterprise should disclose segment liabilities for each reportable segment....
57. An enterprise should disclose the total cost incurred during the...
58. An enterprise should disclose the total amount of expense included...
59. An enterprise is encouraged, but not required to disclose the...
61. An enterprise should disclose, for each reportable segment, the total...
62. IAS 7 requires that an enterprise present a cash flow...
63. An enterprise that provides the segment cash flow disclosures that...
64. An enterprise should disclose, for each reportable segment, the aggregate...
65. While a single aggregate amount is disclosed pursuant to the...
66. If an enterprise's aggregate share of the net profit or...
67. An enterprise should present a reconciliation between the information disclosed...
68. Paragraphs 50 to 67 identify the disclosure requirements to be...
69. If an enterprise's primary format for reporting segment information is...
70. If an enterprise's primary format for reporting segment information is...
71. If an enterprise's primary format for reporting segment information is...
72. If an enterprise's primary format for reporting segment information is...
74. If a business segment or geographical segment for which information...
75. In measuring and reporting segment revenue from transactions with other...
76. Changes in accounting policies adopted for segment reporting that have...
77. Changes in accounting policies adopted by the enterprise are dealt...
78. Changes in accounting policies adopted at the enterprise level that...
79. Some changes in accounting policies relate specifically to segment reporting....
80. Paragraph 75 requires that, for segment reporting purposes, inter-segment transfers...
81. An enterprise should indicate the types of products and services...
83. Previously reported segments that no longer satisfy the quantitative thresholds...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 16 Property, Plant and Equipment
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 17 Leases
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 18 (REVISED 1993)
14. Revenue from the sale of goods should be recognised when...
15. The assessment of when an enterprise has transferred the significant...
16. If the enterprise retains significant risks of ownership, the transaction...
17. If an enterprise retains only an insignificant risk of ownership,...
18. Revenue is recognised only when it is probable that the...
19. Revenue and expenses that relate to the same transaction or...
20. When the outcome of a transaction involving the rendering of...
21. The recognition of revenue by reference to the stage of...
22. Revenue is recognised only when it is probable that the...
23. An enterprise is generally able to make reliable estimates after...
24. The stage of completion of a transaction may be determined...
25. For practical purposes, when services are performed by an indeterminate...
26. When the outcome of the transaction involving the rendering of...
27. During the early stages of a transaction, it is often...
28. When the outcome of a transaction cannot be estimated reliably...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 19 (REVISED 2002)
1. The Standard prescribes the accounting and disclosure by employers for...
2. The Standard identifies five categories of employee benefits:
3. The Standard requires an enterprise to recognise short-term employee benefits...
4. Post-employment benefit plans are classified as either defined contribution plans...
5. Under defined contribution plans, an enterprise pays fixed contributions into...
6. All other post-employment benefit plans are defined benefit plans. Defined...
7. The Standard requires a simpler method of accounting for other...
8. Termination benefits are employee benefits payable as a result of...
9. An enterprise is demonstrably committed to a termination when, and...
10. Where termination benefits fall due more than 12 months after the...
11. Equity compensation benefits are employee benefits under which either: employees...
12. The Standard is effective for accounting periods beginning on or...
13. This Standard was amended in 2000 to amend the definition...
1. This Standard should be applied by an employer in accounting...
2. This Standard does not deal with reporting by employee benefit...
3. This Standard applies to all employee benefits, including those provided:...
5. Employee benefits include benefits provided to either employees or their...
6. An employee may provide services to an enterprise on a...
9. Accounting for short-term employee benefits is generally straightforward because no...
Short-term compensated absences
11. An enterprise should recognise the expected cost of short-term employee...
12. An enterprise may compensate employees for absence for various reasons...
13. Accumulating compensated absences are those that are carried forward and...
14. An enterprise should measure the expected cost of accumulating compensated...
15. The method specified in the previous paragraph measures the obligation...
16. Non-accumulating compensated absences do not carry forward: they lapse if...
Profit-sharing and bonus plans
17. An enterprise should recognise the expected cost of profit-sharing and...
18. Under some profit-sharing plans, employees receive a share of the...
20. An enterprise can make a reliable estimate of its legal...
21. An obligation under profit-sharing and bonus plans results from employee...
22. If profit-sharing and bonus payments are not due wholly within...
POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: DISTINCTION BETWEEN DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLANS AND DEFINED BENEFIT...
25. Post-employment benefit plans are classified as either defined contribution plans...
26. Examples of cases where an enterprise's obligation is not limited...
28. Paragraphs 29 to 42 explain the distinction between defined contribution plans...
29. An enterprise should classify a multi-employer plan as a defined...
30. When sufficient information is not available to use defined benefit...
31. One example of a defined benefit multi-employer plan is one...
32. Where sufficient information is available about a multi-employer plan which...
33. Multi-employer plans are distinct from group administration plans. A group...
34. Defined benefit plans that pool the assets contributed by various...
35. IAS 37, provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets, requires an...
POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS
48. Accounting for defined benefit plans is complex because actuarial assumptions...
49. Defined benefit plans may be unfunded, or they may be...
50. Accounting by an enterprise for defined benefit plans involves the...
51. In some cases, estimates, averages and computational shortcuts may provide...
54. The amount recognised as a defined benefit liability should be...
55. The present value of the defined benefit obligation is the...
56. An enterprise should determine the present value of defined benefit...
57. This Standard encourages, but does not require, an enterprise to...
58. The amount determined under paragraph 54 may be negative (an asset)....
58A. The application of paragraph 58 should not result in a gain...
58B. Paragraph 58A applies to an enterprise only if it has,...
60. The limit in paragraph 58(b) does not over-ride the delayed recognition...
Recognition and measurement: present value of defined benefit obligations and...
Attributing benefit to periods of service
67. In determining the present value of its defined benefit obligations...
68. The projected unit credit method requires an enterprise to attribute...
69. Employee service gives rise to an obligation under a defined...
70. The obligation increases until the date when further service by...
71. Where the amount of a benefit is a constant proportion...
72. Actuarial assumptions should be unbiased and mutually compatible.
73. Actuarial assumptions are an enterprise's best estimates of the variables...
74. Actuarial assumptions are unbiased if they are neither imprudent nor...
75. Actuarial assumptions are mutually compatible if they reflect the economic...
76. An enterprise determines the discount rate and other financial assumptions...
77. Financial assumptions should be based on market expectations, at the...
Actuarial assumptions: salaries, benefits and medical costs
83. Post-employment benefit obligations should be measured on a basis that...
84. Estimates of future salary increases take account of inflation, seniority,...
86. Actuarial assumptions do not reflect future benefit changes that are...
87. Some post-employment benefits are linked to variables such as the...
88. Assumptions about medical costs should take account of estimated future...
89. Measurement of post-employment medical benefits requires assumptions about the level...
90. The level and frequency of claims is particularly sensitive to...
91. Some post-employment health care plans require employees to contribute to...
96. In measuring its defined benefit liability under paragraph 54, an enterprise...
97. Past service cost arises when an enterprise introduces a defined...
99. An enterprise establishes the amortisation schedule for past service cost...
100. Where an enterprise reduces benefits payable under an existing defined...
101. Where an enterprise reduces certain benefits payable under an existing...
109. An enterprise should recognise gains or losses on the curtailment...
110. Before determining the effect of a curtailment or settlement, an...
112. A settlement occurs when an enterprise enters into a transaction...
113. In some cases, an enterprise acquires an insurance policy to...
114. A settlement occurs together with a curtailment if a plan...
115. Where a curtailment relates to only some of the employees...
120. An enterprise should disclose the following information about defined benefit...
121. Paragraph 120(b) requires a general description of the type of plan....
122. When an enterprise has more than one defined benefit plan,...
123. Paragraph 30 requires additional disclosures about multi-employer defined benefit plans...
124. Where required by IAS 24, related party disclosures, an enterprise discloses...
125. Where required by IAS 37, provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets,...
132. This Standard deals with termination benefits separately from other employee...
133. An enterprise should recognise termination benefits as a liability and...
134. An enterprise is demonstrably committed to a termination when, and...
135. An enterprise may be committed, by legislation, by contractual or...
136. Some employee benefits are payable regardless of the reason for...
137. Termination benefits do not provide an enterprise with future economic...
138. Where an enterprise recognises termination benefits, the enterprise may also...
144. Equity compensation benefits include benefits in such forms as:
146. The disclosures required below are intended to enable users of...
149. When an enterprise has more than one equity compensation plan,...
150. When an enterprise has issued share options to employees, or...
151. The disclosures required by paragraphs 147 and 148 are intended to meet...
152. In the absence of specific recognition and measurement requirements for...
157. This International Accounting Standard becomes operative for financial statements covering...
158. This Standard supersedes IAS 19, retirement benefit costs, approved in 1993....
159. The following become operative for annual financial statements covering periods...
159A. The amendment in paragraph 58A becomes operative for annual financial...
160. IAS 8, net profit or loss for the period, fundamental...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 20 (REFORMATTED 1994)
Accounting for government grants and disclosure of government assistance
7. Government grants, including non-monetary grants at fair value, should not...
8. A government grant is not recognised until there is reasonable...
10. A forgivable loan from government is treated as a government...
11. Once a government grant is recognised, any related contingent liability...
12. Government grants should be recognised as income over the periods...
13. Two broad approaches may be found to the accounting treatment...
14. Those in support of the capital approach argue as follows:...
15. Arguments in support of the income approach are as follows:...
16. It is fundamental to the income approach that government grants...
17. In most cases the periods over which an enterprise recognises...
18. Grants related to non-depreciable assets may also require the fulfilment...
19. Grants are sometimes received as part of a package of...
20. A government grant that becomes receivable as compensation for expenses...
21. In certain circumstances, a government grant may be awarded for...
22. A government grant may become receivable by an enterprise as...
Presentation of grants related to assets
24. Government grants related to assets, including non-monetary grants at fair...
25. Two methods of presentation in financial statements of grants (or...
26. One method sets up the grant as deferred income which...
27. The other method deducts the grant in arriving at the...
28. The purchase of assets and the receipt of related grants...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 21 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARD 3 Business combinations
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARD 4 Insurance contracts
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 23 (REVISED 1993)
BORROWING COSTS — ALLOWED ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT
10. Borrowing costs should be recognised as an expense in the...
11. Borrowing costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition, construction...
12. Under the allowed alternative treatment, borrowing costs that are directly...
Borrowing costs eligible for capitalisation
13. The borrowing costs that are directly attributable to the acquisition,...
14. It may be difficult to identify a direct relationship between...
15. To the extent that funds are borrowed specifically for the...
16. The financing arrangements for a qualifying asset may result in...
17. To the extent that funds are borrowed generally and used...
18. In some circumstances, it is appropriate to include all borrowings...
Excess of the carrying amount of the qualifying asset over...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 24 Related Party Disclosures
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 26 (REFORMATTED 1994)
Accounting and reporting by retirement benefit plans
1. This Standard should be applied in the reports of retirement...
2. Retirement benefit plans are sometimes referred to by various other...
3. This Standard deals with accounting and reporting by the plan...
4. IAS 19, employee benefits, is concerned with the determination of...
5. Retirement benefit plans may be defined contribution plans or defined...
6. Retirement benefit plans with assets invested with insurance companies are...
7. This Standard does not deal with other forms of employment...
8. The following terms are used in this Standard with the...
9. Some retirement benefit plans have sponsors other than employers; this...
10. Most retirement benefit plans are based on formal agreements. Some...
11. Many retirement benefit plans provide for the establishment of separate...
12. Retirement benefit plans are normally described as either defined contribution...
17. The report of a defined benefit plan should contain either:...
18. For the purposes of paragraph 17, the actuarial present value...
19. The report should explain the relationship between the actuarial present...
20. Under a defined benefit plan, the payment of promised retirement...
21. A defined benefit plan needs the periodic advice of an...
22. The objective of reporting by a defined benefit plan is...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 27 Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 28 Investments in Associates
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 29 (REFORMATTED 1994)
Financial reporting in hyperinflationary economies
THE RESTATEMENT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
5. Prices change over time as the result of various specific...
6. In most countries, primary financial statements are prepared on the...
7. In a hyperinflationary economy, financial statements, whether they are based...
8. The financial statements of an enterprise that reports in the...
10. The restatement of financial statements in accordance with this Standard...
Historical cost financial statements
11. Balance sheet amounts not already expressed in terms of the...
12. Monetary items are not restated because they are already expressed...
13. Assets and liabilities linked by agreement to changes in prices,...
14. All other assets and liabilities are non-monetary. Some non-monetary items...
15. Most non-monetary items are carried at cost or cost less...
16. Detailed records of the acquisition dates of items of property,...
18. Some non-monetary items are carried at amounts current at dates...
19. The restated amount of a non-monetary item is reduced, in...
20. An investee that is accounted for under the equity method...
21. The impact of inflation is usually recognised in borrowing costs....
22. An enterprise may acquire assets under an arrangement that permits...
23. IAS 21, the effects of changes in foreign exchange rates,...
24. At the beginning of the first period of application of...
Current cost financial statements
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 30 (REFORMATTED 1994)
Disclosures in the financial statements of banks and similar financial...
1. This Standard should be applied in the financial statements of...
2. For the purposes of this Standard, the term ‘bank’ includes...
3. Banks represent a significant and influential sector of business worldwide....
4. This Standard supplements other International Accounting Standards which also apply...
5. This Standard applies to the separate financial statements and the...
9. A bank should present an income statement which groups income...
10. In addition to the requirements of other International Accounting Standards,...
11. The principal types of income arising from the operations of...
12. The principal types of expenses arising from the operations of...
13. Income and expense items should not be offset except for...
14. Offsetting in cases other than those relating to hedges and...
15. Gains and losses arising from each of the following are...
16. Interest income and interest expense are disclosed separately in order...
18. A bank should present a balance sheet that groups assets...
19. In addition to the requirements of other International Accounting Standards,...
20. The most useful approach to the classification of the assets...
21. The distinction between balances with other banks and those with...
25. IAS 39 provides for four classifications of financial assets: loans...
CONTINGENCIES AND COMMITMENTS INCLUDING OFF BALANCE SHEET ITEMS
26. A bank should disclose the following contingent liabilities and commitments:...
27. IAS 37, provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets, deals generally...
28. Many banks also enter into transactions that are presently not...
29. The users of the financial statements need to know about...
MATURITIES OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
30. A bank should disclose an analysis of assets and liabilities...
31. The matching and controlled mismatching of the maturities and interest...
32. The maturities of assets and liabilities and the ability to...
33. The maturity groupings applied to individual assets and liabilities differ...
34. It is essential that the maturity periods adopted by a...
38. The users' evaluation of the liquidity of a bank from...
39. In order to provide users with a full understanding of...
CONCENTRATIONS OF ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND OFF BALANCE SHEET ITEMS
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 31 Interests in Joint Ventures
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 32 Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation
APPENDIX A Application Guidance IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 33 Earnings per Share
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 34
1. This Standard (‘IAS 34’) addresses interim financial reporting, a matter...
2. An interim financial report is a financial report that contains...
3. This Standard does not mandate which enterprises should publish interim...
5. Minimum content of an interim financial report is a condensed...
6. On the presumption that anyone who reads an enterprise's interim...
7. An enterprise should apply the same accounting policies in its...
8. An appendix to this Standard provides guidance for applying the...
9. In deciding how to recognise, classify, or disclose an item...
CONTENT OF AN INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORT
5. IAS 1 defines a complete set of financial statements as...
6. In the interest of timeliness and cost considerations and to...
7. Nothing in this Standard is intended to prohibit or discourage...
Form and content of interim financial statements
9. If an enterprise publishes a complete set of financial statements...
10. If an enterprise publishes a set of condensed financial statements...
11. Basic and diluted earnings per share should be presented on...
12. IAS 1 provides guidance on the structure of financial statements...
13. While IAS 1 requires that a statement showing changes in...
14. An interim financial report is prepared on a consolidated basis...
Periods for which interim financial statements are required to be...
Same accounting policies as annual
28. An enterprise should apply the same accounting policies in its...
29. Requiring that an enterprise apply the same accounting policies in...
31. Under the framework for the preparation and presentation of financial...
32. For assets, the same tests of future economic benefits apply...
33. An essential characteristic of income (revenue) and expenses is that...
34. In measuring the assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and cash flows...
35. An enterprise that reports half-yearly uses information available by mid-year...
36. An enterprise that reports more frequently than half-yearly measures income...
APPENDIX A Using PresentValue Techniques to Measure Value in Use
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 37
Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets
1. IAS 37 prescribes the accounting and disclosure for all provisions,...
2. The Standard defines provisions as liabilities of uncertain timing or...
3. The Standard defines a constructive obligation as an obligation that...
5. The amount recognised as a provision should be the best...
6. The Standard requires that an enterprise should, in measuring a...
7. An enterprise may expect reimbursement of some or all of...
8. Provisions should be reviewed at each balance sheet date and...
9. A provision should be used only for expenditures for which...
Provisions — specific applications
10. The Standard explains how the general recognition and measurement requirements...
11. Provisions should not be recognised for future operating losses. An...
13. The Standard defines a restructuring as a programme that is...
14. A provision for restructuring costs is recognised only when the...
15. A management or board decision to restructure does not give...
16. Where a restructuring involves the sale of an operation, no...
17. A restructuring provision should include only the direct expenditures arising...
1. This Standard should be applied by all enterprises in accounting...
2. This Standard applies to financial instruments (including guarantees) that are...
3. Executory contracts are contracts under which neither party has performed...
4. This Standard applies to provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets...
5. Where another International Accounting Standard deals with a specific type...
6. Some amounts treated as provisions may relate to the recognition...
7. This Standard defines provisions as liabilities of uncertain timing or...
8. Other International Accounting Standards specify whether expenditures are treated as...
9. This Standard applies to provisions for restructuring (including discontinuing operations)....
32. Contingent assets usually arise from unplanned or other unexpected events...
33. Contingent assets are not recognised in financial statements since this...
34. A contingent asset is disclosed, as required by paragraph 89, where...
35. Contingent assets are assessed continually to ensure that developments are...
36. The amount recognised as a provision should be the best...
37. The best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the...
38. The estimates of outcome and financial effect are determined by...
39. Uncertainties surrounding the amount to be recognised as a provision...
40. Where a single obligation is being measured, the individual most...
41. The provision is measured before tax, as the tax consequences...
53. Where some or all of the expenditure required to settle...
54. In the income statement, the expense relating to a provision...
55. Sometimes, an enterprise is able to look to another party...
56. In most cases the enterprise will remain liable for the...
58. As noted in paragraph 29, an obligation for which an enterprise...
APPLICATION OF THE RECOGNITION AND MEASUREMENT RULES
70. The following are examples of events that may fall under...
71. A provision for restructuring costs is recognised only when the...
72. A constructive obligation to restructure arises only when an enterprise:...
73. Evidence that an enterprise has started to implement a restructuring...
75. A management or board decision to restructure taken before the...
76. Although a constructive obligation is not created solely by a...
77. In some countries, the ultimate authority is vested in a...
78. No obligation arises for the sale of an operation until...
80. A restructuring provision should include only the direct expenditures arising...
81. A restructuring provision does not include such costs as:
82. Identifiable future operating losses up to the date of a...
83. As required by paragraph 51, gains on the expected disposal of...
84. For each class of provision, an enterprise should disclose:
85. An enterprise should disclose the following for each class of...
86. Unless the possibility of any outflow in settlement is remote,...
87. In determining which provisions or contingent liabilities may be aggregated...
88. Where a provision and a contingent liability arise from the...
89. Where an inflow of economic benefits is probable, an enterprise...
90. It is important that disclosures for contingent assets avoid giving...
91. Where any of the information required by paragraphs 86 and 89 is...
92. In extremely rare cases, disclosure of some or all of...
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 38 Intangible assets
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement
APPENDIX A Application Guidance
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD 40 Investment Property
INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD IAS 41
1. IAS 41 prescribes the accounting treatment, financial statement presentation, and...
2. IAS 41 prescribes, among other things, the accounting treatment for...
3. There is a presumption that fair value can be measured...
6. IAS 41 requires that an unconditional government grant related to...
7. IAS 41 is effective for annual financial statements covering periods...
8. IAS 41 does not establish any specific transitional provisions. The...
9. Appendix A provides illustrative examples of the application of IAS 41....
10. An enterprise should recognise a biological asset or agricultural produce...
11. In agricultural activity, control may be evidenced by, for example,...
12. A biological asset should be measured on initial recognition and...
13. Agricultural produce harvested from an enterprise's biological assets should be...
14. Point-of-sale costs include commissions to brokers and dealers, levies by...
15. The determination of fair value for a biological asset or...
16. Enterprises often enter into contracts to sell their biological assets...
18. If an active market does not exist, an enterprise uses...
19. In some cases, the information sources listed in paragraph 18 may...
20. In some circumstances, market-determined prices or values may not be...
21. The objective of a calculation of the present value of...
22. An enterprise does not include any cash flows for financing...
23. In agreeing an arm's length transaction price, knowledgeable, willing buyers...
24. Cost may sometimes approximate fair value, particularly when:
25. Biological assets are often physically attached to land (for example,...
34. An unconditional government grant related to a biological asset measured...
35. If a government grant related to a biological asset measured...
36. Terms and conditions of government grants vary. For example, a...
37. If a government grant relates to a biological asset measured...
38. This Standard requires a different treatment from IAS 20, if a...
40. An enterprise should disclose the aggregate gain or loss arising...
41. An enterprise should provide a description of each group of...
42. The disclosure required by paragraph 41 may take the form of...
43. An enterprise is encouraged to provide a quantified description of...
44. Consumable biological assets are those that are to be harvested...
45. Biological assets may be classified either as mature biological assets...
46. If not disclosed elsewhere in information published with the financial...
47. An enterprise should disclose the methods and significant assumptions applied...
48. An enterprise should disclose the fair value less estimated point-of-sale...
50. An enterprise should present a reconciliation of changes in the...
51. The fair value less estimated point-of-sale costs of a biological...
52. Biological transformation results in a number of types of physical...
53. Agricultural activity is often exposed to climatic, disease, and other...
Additional disclosures for biological assets where fair value cannot be...
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARD 2 Share-based Payment
IFRS 1 — First-time adoption of International Financial Reporting Standard...
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARD 1
First-time adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards
7. An entity shall use the same accounting policies in its...
8. An entity shall not apply different versions of IFRSs that...
9. The transitional provisions in other IFRSs apply to changes in...
10. Except as described in paragraphs 13 to 34, an entity...
11. The accounting policies that an entity uses in its opening...
12. This IFRS establishes two categories of exceptions to the principle...
Assets and liabilities of subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures
35. This IFRS does not provide exemptions from the presentation and...
STANDING INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE INTERPRETATION SIC-12
Consolidation — special purpose entities
2. The sponsor (or enterprise on whose behalf the SPE was...
3. A beneficial interest in an SPE may, for example, take...
4. IAS 27 requires the consolidation of entities that are controlled...
5. The issue is under what circumstances an enterprise should consolidate...
6. This interpretation does not apply to post-employment benefit plans or...
STANDING INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE INTERPRETATION SIC-15
STANDING INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE INTERPRETATION SIC-27
Evaluating the substance of transactions involving the legal form of...
3. A series of transactions that involve the legal form of...
4. The accounting should reflect the substance of the arrangement. All...
5. IAS 17 applies when the substance of an arrangement includes...
6. The definitions and guidance in paragraphs 49 to 64 of the framework...
7. Other obligations of an arrangement, including any guarantees provided and...
8. The criteria in paragraph 20 of IAS 18 should be applied...
9. The fee should be presented in the income statement based...
STANDING INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE INTERPRETATION SIC-29
Disclosure — service concession arrangements
1. An enterprise (the concession operator) may enter into an arrangement...
2. A service concession arrangement generally involves the concession provider conveying...
3. The common characteristic of all service concession arrangements is that...
4. The issue is what information should be disclosed in the...
5. Certain aspects and disclosures relating to some service concession arrangements...
STANDING INTERPRETATIONS COMMITTEE INTERPRETATION SIC-32
Intangible assets — web site costs
1. An enterprise may incur internal expenditure on the development and...
2. The stages of a web site's development can be described...
3. Once development of a web site has been completed, the...
4. When accounting for internal expenditure on the development and operation...
5. This interpretation does not apply to expenditure on purchasing, developing,...
IFRIC INTERPRETATION 1 Changes in Existing Decommissioning, Restoration and Similar Liabilities
APPENDIX Amendments to IFRS 1 First-time Adoption of International Financial Reporting...
IFRIC INTERPRETATION 2 Members’ Shares in Cooperative Entities and Similar Instruments
5 The contractual right of the holder of a financial instrument...
6 Members’ shares that would be classified as equity if the...
7 Members’ shares are equity if the entity has an unconditional...
8 Local law, regulation or the entity’s governing charter can impose...
9 An unconditional prohibition may be absolute, in that all redemptions...
10 At initial recognition, the entity shall measure its financial liability...
11 As required by paragraph 35 of IAS 32, distributions to...
12 The Appendix, which is an integral part of the consensus,...
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